
Nancy Sheridan
Education Counsellor
Guiding students toward the right path for them
Education counsellor with nine years guiding students through course choices, university applications and study-abroad decisions in Dublin. Helps young people and their families navigate options, understand requirements, and make confident, well-informed choices about their education and future. Built a structured guidance programme that improved students' application success and university-offer rates. Carries out one-to-one counselling, runs information sessions, supports personal statements and applications, and advises on funding, visas and pathways. Strong on both the detailed knowledge of courses and systems and the empathy to support anxious students and parents. Patient, encouraging and genuinely invested in each student's outcome. Looking for an education-counsellor, careers-adviser or student-guidance role with a school, college or education provider that puts students first.
Dublin Education Guidance Centre - Dublin, Ireland
Education Counsellor April 2016 to Present 10 years & 3 months
Built a structured guidance programme that improved the students' application success and the offer rates.
Deliver all the one-to-one counselling and run the information sessions for both students and families.
Support the personal statements, the applications and the full interview preparation for all the students.
Advise on the funding, the visas and the pathways into the different careers and courses.
Support the anxious students and the parents with real patience through all of these big life decisions.
Leinster Secondary School - Dublin, Ireland
Careers & Guidance Advisor August 2014 to March 2016 1 year & 8 months
Ran the guidance sessions and supported the application process for students.
Learned the counselling, the application systems and student support on the job.
Gained the diploma and then moved into a full education-counsellor role.
Leinster Secondary School - Dublin, Ireland
Student Support Assistant June 2012 to July 2014 2 years & 2 months
Helped run the open days, the workshops and the careers events.
Learned the student guidance and the full application systems on the job.
Then earned the move into a careers-and-guidance advisor role from there.
Trinity College Dublin
BA (Hons) Psychology (September 2007 to June 2010)
University College Dublin
Diploma in Guidance & Educational Counselling (September 2012 to June 2014)
Better offer rates
Calm through big decisions
Study Abroad & University Admissions
British Council (May 2020 to Present)
Safeguarding & Student Wellbeing
Education Support Service (June 2021 to Present)
Guidance & Educational Counselling
University College Dublin (June 2014 to Present)
Career Coaching & Psychometrics
Institute of Guidance Counsellors (April 2019 to Present)
- Student Counselling
- University Applications
- Careers Guidance
- Course Advice
- Personal Statements
- Study Abroad & Visas
- Funding Advice
- Information Sessions
- Family Engagement
- Student Support